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You Can't Calm the Sea
You can't calm the sea, but you can learn to sail. Meditation doesn't give us control over the thoughts, feelings, or disturbances that pass through the mind. But it teaches us how to navigate them. And how to find our way back to the present moment.
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Coping With Overwhelm
Overwhelm is not a character flaw. Much of it is designed, some of it is your mind handing over the wheel, and a good deal of it is emotional debt collecting interest. Here is what is going on, and four things that help.
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Unlearning
Much of meditation is not learning but unlearning. How we suppress our connection to the body, why that makes sitting still difficult, and why we always begin with the breath.
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